The Oubliette - format ePub

Most people come to Jaipur for its Pink City architecture, spirituality, and vibrant culture. I'm just here to burn it all down.Holika Dahan in Jaipur is a spectacle of roaring bonfires and crowds enthusiastically...

Most people head to New Orleans for jazz, bourbon, and beads. I'm just here for the body count.Mardi Gras in the Big Easy is usually a party, but this year, the air smells more like tear gas than celebration....

Step into a chilling realm where darkness whispers, and nightmares bleed into reality.Dive into this third collection of 13 twisted tales, each a portal to hidden horrors. Each story rips the veil between...

Step into a twisted realm where nightmares claw at the edges of reality.This second collection of 13 chilling tales throws you into a vortex of suspense. Each story explores the depths of human darkness...

A Stolen Book. Vanishing Immortals. Will Chaos Reign?After their return from Tír na nÓg, Eithne and her friends are thrust into a world on the brink of disaster. The ancient book, holding the power to...

In the haunted shadows of Pretoria's underworld, where rival gangs carve empires in blood, a brutal act ignites an inferno. A young woman, her life snuffed out in a depraved film, refuses to stay silent....

An exclusive dinner invitation. An unknown location in a derelict part of town. A guest list of complete strangers. What could possibly go wrong?As a food critic, I have to be brave and try new things....

"Genuinely Disturbing, in Some Cases Distasteful, and Creepy as Hell..."After her father's suicide, Sarah discovers a horrifying truth: a demonic entity named Jack fueled his despair. Now, Sarah is Jack's...

Eric warned her she'd never get away. He was wrong.After years of walking on eggshells, Mara is making a desperate run for her life, tearing through the unforgiving woods to escape her abusive husband....

The first instalment of The Eternally Cursed Chronicles, "Bound by Betrayal," delves into a tale of ancient grudges and supernatural vendettas that weaves a gripping narrative of two women bound by tragedy...

The Woods Hide More Than Secrets—They Hide DeathThe trees swallowed me whole, their twisted branches closing in like a trap. I came out broken but alive. Barely. Now, I'm back, searching for answers about...

My father was assassinated at the board table. I inherited his title, his enemies, and a deadly war for my son's life.My father, head of The Organisation, was poisoned in a room full of his rivals. They...

 I survived their deadly game. Now they're turning me into a weapon. Big mistake.They stripped me naked, healed my wounds with tiny robots, and put me in a tank. When I woke up, I was faster, stronger,...

I wanted to save the world. I ended up getting captured and shot. This is the bloody consequence of winning The Race.I won The Race and survived a civil war in my Patron's castle. I'm faster, stronger—but...

They made me a weapon. But I never saw the real threat—the one inside the castle walls.I survived Siberia and came back faster, stronger, and deadlier—thanks to a brand-new liver and a few million nanobots....

I returned to the Island for revenge. Instead, I found a firing squad waiting for all of us.I swore I'd never set foot on the Island again. But here I am—stronger, faster, deadlier—and ready to collect...

Cosamian Dastou is the last living Saint. His immunity to the Social Cypher, a system of mass-hypnotism that regulates and controls modern life, means that some people worship him, and many think of him...

Foxmeadow and Maria go on a quest to find the missing Scepter of Imagination. They become lost in time and must find their way home.When the quest turns into another, Maria is faced with a decision only...

Missing ring. Stolen passport. Dead body. Getting engaged can be murder. A dead man was found with my passport…but how did he get it? To make matters worse, my engagement ring is missing. I'd planned...

After a freak accident killed his wife and son, Pritchard slipped into alcoholism to drown his sorrows at a blue-collar bar nearby to avoid the dead and empty house. But then a teenage girl asked for...

Take a trip to the edges of imagination in this stunning collection of short stories from the five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as "one of Canada's most original writers of speculative...

Welcome to Fairbanks Cove, where sea breezes carry secrets and cats know more than they let on. Lily Fairbanks thought she was just taking her usual morning walk along the beach with Milo, her unusually...

Samar Habeen is a warrior waging two wars—one against the Nightmares that prowl the forsaken streets of Oganja, and another within the silent chambers of her own heart. Grief clings to her like a second...

Plucked from his home by forces unknown, a man finds himself lost between myriad worlds of science and magic, past and future. Saddled with an AI brain passenger, magically morphing armour and burgeoning...

I was sworn to keep the peace, not fall in love.Claire Hollister is trouble. Not because she's reckless, but because the second she came back to Mustang Mountain, I knew I wouldn't let anything touch...

Raven is convinced the world beat her down. Bitter and resentful, she blames everyone but herself for her miserable trailer park existence on the outskirts of Stevats. But when she buys a cheap Santa...

Compelled to atone for the sins of her slaveholding father, Union loyalist Sophie Kent risks everything to help end the war from within the Confederate capital and abolish slavery forever. But she can't...

After a thousand years alone, Marcus didn't care when the hunter found him. Rather than kill the vampire, the hunter took Marcus prisoner and from him to aid in the hunts. Neither expected what that beginning...

Delivering LoveWhen small-town midwife Poppy McCrae meets city-trained paediatrician Jake Sheppard, sparks fly—and not the romantic kind. Jake makes no secret of his distrust of Poppy's alternative methods,...

Alex Drydon retired as a rifleman after the Napoleonic wars. In 1821 he sails across the world searching for his pirate brother Bram. His quest leads him to the islands of New Zealand where musket wars...

A punchy Sci-Fi tale of death and disaster in a frozen landscape where it takes every every ounce of courage and resource just to survive.Dressed for the cold, Tab repairs the skater ship detector arrays....

I was his prisoner. Now, I am his only hope. We survived the escape from Aethelgard, but we crashed into hell. The Himmapan Zone isn't just a jungle. It's a bioluminescent graveyard of ancient tech and...

Anchored Hearts: The Promise (Book Four)A faith-filled love story where covenant is tested, surrender is required, and God's promise is revealed.  Every mile, every silence, every prayer has led here...

A slave with forbidden magic. A lonely prince. A love that could burn an empire.Sylvarin is a human slave, born into the royal household of an Incubus clan. To his immortal, lust-eating masters, he is...

A single text shatters Marisol's world: her Army husband's hand laced with another woman's—right there on her phone amid the coffee shop chatter at Fort Bragg. Humiliation ripples through the wives' circle,...

In the kingdom of Bravenstone, peace is a fragile thing.As the annual Reaping approaches, King Aldric Duskheart rules a realm shadowed by the sudden death of his Queen. Though the castle stands calm and...

When the bell tolls thirty-two times in a single Sunday, seventeen-year-old Nomvula  starts counting. By Thursday it has tolled sixty-seven times. By Monday morning she has a question for her teacher,...

Love is never just one thing.The Dichotomy of Love reveals passion in all its forms—sweet, sacrificial, rebellious, and dangerously consuming. From tender young romance to devotion that slips into obsession,...

Exalted has always craved adventure; she finds it in spades, hearts, and stars.This novella is inspired by the world of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland", "Through the Looking-glass", and a bit of old...

Ten years of marriage. Ten years of hope, disappointment, and the slow, silent drift that comes when every month brings fresh heartbreak. Sophie and Daniel Ashford thought a fresh start in the Cotswolds...

A respected rector. A forgotten girl. A truth buried for thirty-two years.When Thomas Nkosi arrives in Makhanda to celebrate the legacy of a beloved school founder, he expects admiration — not absence....

Ollie the octopus loves to play!But his favourite game isn't tag or hide-and-seek. It's splashing his friends with a giant cloud of inky, sticky goo!At first, he thinks it's hilarious. But soon, the little...

LoganA year ago, I made a choice. A bad choice. Out of the blue, I got a shot at moving up from the ECHL to the AHL, probably my last shot at a higher hockey league at age 33. Except at the same moment,...

Elias never wanted to become a vampire. After a frustrating Northern summer learning how to be a proper fledgling, an ultimatum looms: If he can't embrace his new reality, both his place in the coven...

Quinn West doesn't chase the spotlight. As an author, she's most comfortable behind the pages—observing, entertaining, and never letting anyone get too close. But when her work takes her across cities...

They told her her baby was dead. They lied.Dr. Mao Song was one of the best neurosurgeons in the country until the night her husband died, her life was destroyed, and she was buried alive inside a prison...